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Evolving People and Processes for the Cloud

  • Writer: Sash Barige
    Sash Barige
  • Oct 8, 2016
  • 2 min read

Updated: Apr 1, 2024


In the cloud strategy post, I’d mentioned “Making It Happen” on how to plan for skills transformation, cultural shift and the organizational realignment. Here are the key factors and areas to consider:

Key Pillars:

  1. Skills Transformation

  2. Cultural and Mindset Shift

  3. Organizational Design and Realignment

 

Skills Transformation

  • Comprehensive Training Programs

  • Cloud architecture/distributed systems

  • DevOps practices (CI/CD, IaC, GitOps)

  • Modern app architecture (microservices, containers, serverless)

  • Data engineering and analytics

  • Cloud security and compliance

  • New Talent Acquisition

  • Cloud solution architects

  • DevOps/SRE engineers

  • Cloud data engineers

  • Azure administrators

  • Learning Culture and Continuous Upskilling

  • Training budgets and resources

  • Enablement days and hands-on sessions

  • Certification attainment incentives

 

  1. Cultural and Mindset Shift

  • Embrace DevOps Philosophies

  • Automation over manually-driven tasks

  • Treat infrastructure and apps as code

  • Collaborative culture and shared ownership

  • Cloud-Native Thinking

  • Build for elasticity, scalability first

  • Asynchronous, event-driven architectures

  • API-centric integration and composability

  • Agile and Product-Centric Mentality

  • Cross-functional team models

  • Rapid iteration over big-bang releases

  • Continuous deployment and validation

  1. Organizational Design and Realignment

  • Establish Cloud Platform Organization

  • Azure operations, reliability, and enablement

  • Self-service provisioning and catalogs

  • FinOps cost optimization

  • Restructure to Product-Aligned Teams

  • End-to-end ownership for services

  • Blended engineering & operational duties

  • Data/ML/analytics functions embedded

  • Leverage Cloud Partners and MSPs

  • Fill initial skills/experience gaps

  • Adopt proven operating models & blueprints

  • Ongoing staff augmentation as needed

The key pillars cover revamping skills through training and talent, driving a cultural transformation around DevOps, agility and cloud-native thinking, and realigning the organization’s structure and processes to optimize for a cloud operating model.

This highlights that successfully executing a cloud strategy goes far beyond just the technical migration - it requires comprehensive workforce and organizational evolution in parallel. The people, process and culture workstreams are critical complementary tracks.


10/08/2016

Sash Barige


Links

Cloud Strategy

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Making it Happen

DevOps Rigor

 
 
 

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